my latest submission to stumptown underground, a brilliant publication i’ve been submitting to every month.

i think i’m getting somewhere…

another taker on the “get your portrait drawn on my blog” feature.  anyone else?  apparently its tricky trying to attach photos to messages from my website.  anyone having this problem can send pictures directly to ohyesverynice@gmail.com  or you can send me links to flickr photos or whatever.

in other news, i contacted my tech genius and he fixed the comments thing, so comment away!

the only taker on my get-your-portrait-drawn-on-my-blog project.  surely someone else must read my blog!

i have also learned recently that my comments are really hard to comment on.  i am trying to fix it….

i drew this today.

so far no one wants to be drawn on my blog.  what a loser!  (me).

this is a preview from an upcoming collaborative mini with katie rose leon called “book of lists,”  which is exactly what it sounds like. this list will have all the titles written in when it’s printed.  it is called, “animals that are delicious.”

in other news, i’ve been wondering lately who reads my blog.  if you send me a picture of yourself through the contact me page i will draw it and post it on here.   probably no one will do it and then ill be embarrassed!  we will see…

I am participating in a delightful new project!  Monster Transmission Channel 151 is an art blog with a new theme every 2 weeks.  this time it’s pokemon!

Dave called me up the other day because he wanted to make a new t-shirt.   i was all for it, not knowing then that i was agreeing to work on a project that would require more revisions than anything ever created by anyone, ever.

we started with this, the old peace bomb design.  dave wanted to do a revised take on this with some extra characters added.  sounds easy enough.  i did some sketches:

dave liked these drawings but wanted to add a character from a newer type of bread, the sin dawg.  i did some sketches:

things were going well.  we monkeyed around a little more with dave’s pose:

we seemed to have a pretty good idea of where things were going so i started to pencil what i thought was the final version:

dave decides that it’s a little off…  we agree to move some characters around and then we go through some drafts of alternative poses for dave:

finally, we arrive at a new pencil draft:

dave decides that he’d really like to see what it looks like if he is riding the dog.  i am not thrilled about taking another step back, but i do some quick sketches anyway:

dave decides that this is the way to go so i do a new pencil draft, copying parts of the earlier draft on a light table.

im starting to worry that there might be something a little funny about this image and i send dave a quick sketch that suggests a new way for him to hold his guitar:

dave agrees with the change and the pencils are altered:

then dave decides that we should get rid of the bread guy who is falling in the air and change the seed guy on the back of the bomb to a piece of bread playing a stand-up bass.  i tell him a regular bass would be a lot easier to draw but he insists that a stand-up is funnier.  i do a quick brush sketch:

dave likes it so i put it all together and ink it:

dave asks me to move the peace symbol, which is easy to do in photoshop, and the bass player, which is harder and requires some redrawing.  i tell him it’s impossible and then he offers me more money:

and then it’s all done.  next we show it to some of the other fine folks at daves killer bread and they all immediately tell us that this is a disturbing image and its probably a terrible idea to put it on a t-shirt.

we decide that maybe we ought to put it down for a few days and in that time some helpful solutions are cooked up.  shobi makes a mock-up of how he thinks it can be fixed and i copy it using pieces of what’s done and some really quick doodles:

that seems to be where we want to put everything so i do another draft:

and it works so i ink it:

and then its done!  its really done!  its finally over!!!

and that is where t-shirts come from.